Reading the poem is an experience, and how do I express my gratitude for it? By telling you how great it is? By hoping---wishing---praying that you will find a Love, and a lover, that are as powerfully expressive as this Poem, and all of your Poems; a lover who embodies all of the pleasures and perspectives that you embody in words for your readers.

For years, I have been very smug about the Poetry and Poets I love, and that I love to read. Each of them has fit into a special place, like the stars in a constellation. But your Poetry, as it is revealed in each of the individual Poems you have posted, defies all my careful arrangements of my reading experience. It is like watching the emergence of a proto-star, rising out of a nebula, igniting and beginning to radiate its beauties of light and warmth. But more than that, your Poetry is like a massive star that occupies the very center of its galaxy, and about which all of the stars of that galaxy swirl and spiral. That is how you have come, as a Supreme Poet, to the center of my reading experience; and how,guide by your Poems, I have come to the beauty of your verbal artistry. For the first time in decades, I have reverted back to my early experience of reading Poetry---that, when I read yourlines, all sense, all remembrance, and all process of comparison of and to other poems simply collapses, because the rising of your Poetry into the sky of my reading, and the beautiful shimering of the light it radiates there, allows for no other consideration of anything else.